no need to centralize ... as for prosecutions .... Eric Holder refused to bring charges when the Black Panthers stood at polling places to intimidate voters. J. Christian Adams resigned from his post as a trial attorney for the voting section of the Department of Justice after he was told that the Justice Dept would not be bringing cases
'against black defendants on [behalf] of white victims'.
He was also told that he should ignore a subpoena from the Civil Rights Commission which still has an ongoing investigation. His charge was confirmed and corroborated by Christopher Coates; the former head of the voting section of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division who had led the original investigation .He compared the Black Panther case to an earlier case from 2006, in which Department of Justice attorneys expressed anger at having to investigate Ike Brown, a black democratic politician in Mississippi accused of discriminating against white voters. Coates testified that the Justice Department's administration's decision to drop the Black Panther Case "
was intended to send a direct message to people inside and outside the civil rights division. That message is that the filing of voting cases like the Ike Brown and the NBPP cases would not continue in the Obama administration."
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